A Noted Television Theme

 

MacGyver is an action-adventure sleeper television hit series created by Lee David Zlotoff, with Henry Winkler and John Rich acting as executive producers. A relative newcomer, Richard Dean Anderson, became an international star as Angus MacGyver, an undercover agent for the Phoenix Foundation armed with remarkable scientific resourcefulness to solve almost any problem in the field using mundane materials at hand. The series went through miles of duct tape. The series was so popular, "to MacGyver" something was a phrase that worked its way into the American lexicon. Prolific film composer, Randy Edelman, wrote the dynamic and memorable theme song.

Note: A five-season reboot began in 2016, with Lucas Till well-cast in the title role. But MacGyver was now part of a typical television team of experts, reducing the title character's uniqueness. In addition, the visuals of Mac doing his wizardry were so fastly edited that it challenged the gullibility of any viewer familiar with the original. A token element better left out of the series altogether.